What is Your Default?

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In my last post I wrote about one strategy for working on awareness—Two Questions.

If you commit to asking and answering these Two Questions on a regular basis each and every day you will begin to gather information about yourself. And you will begin to be more aware of your default way of doing things (AKA your habits of Posture and Use)

For example, when you repeatedly ask and answer the question What am I touching? you might begin to notice patterns in how you habitually distribute your weight when sitting and standing.

Be curious.

What is the quality of the contact of the soles of your feet with the ground when you stand?

Is your weight habitually more on one foot than the other?

Is your weight habitually on your heels, with hardly any weight on the balls of your feet?

Are your feet rolled to the outside, so all the weight is on the outsides of your feet? (yes some people do stand this way).

Your entire torso is designed to expand and contract as you breathe. All the way around. Front and back and sides. But what is important is where you notice movement right now. And each time you ask the question.

If you want to make changes to your Posture and your Use you need to gather information about what you currently do on a regular ongoing basis.

Like a child, be curious about what you do

All too often we want to start by being told what to do to make changes.

But you need to start by being curious about what it is that you already do.